Tonight in the Rivers of Pittsburgh

By Brian Lee Weakland

When Brock Bailey's limousine crashes through a bridge railing and disappears into Pittsburgh's murky Monongahela River, the popular Pennsylvania governor is presumed to be dead. Intensive rescue... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595712615
• ISBN13: 9781595712615
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Word Assn Pub
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

An Enjoyable Literary Swim in the Rivers of Pittsburgh

Tonight in the Rivers of Pittsburgh is an excellent first novel. The characters are engaging and the plot is continually twisting. The author does a good job of conveying the charisma and personal power of the unlikeable characters, and does a great job of bringing the main character to life. Weakland's descriptions of the Allegheny Mountains, Kinzua Forest and Pittsburgh bring Western Pennsylvania to life. He does a fantastic job of visually describing catastrophic scenes so that you can almost hear the scenes. The book reminds me a lot of the works of John Hart (Down River, King of Lies) as it is traces the dark secrets of a family for generations and how these secrets impact the final chain of events. My only negative comment is that the editing on the Kindle version is atrocious. There are at least fifteen instances of sentences fragments being repeated and the breaks between chapters and especially within chapters to change focus are awful. I am an avid kindle reader and the sloppiness of this translation of the book to Kindle was very disappointing.

Tonight in the Rivers of Pittsburgh: Review from the West

Tonight in the Rivers of Pittsburgh As a Pennsylvania native transplanted to the rural West many years ago, I found this book to be a colorful reminder my roots. Careful character and location setup preceeds an artful, twisted story told with a storyteller's yarn and flashes of unexpected humor. The prose was crisp and only occassionally challenging to the avid reader. One of many favorite phases was "...ossified chewing gum...". I heartedly recommend this book to readers seeking an excellent mystery story set in an America that is not consumed with today's Homeland Security level orange terrorist alerts and red/blue presidential politics. I anxiously await Mr. Weakland's second novel.